Thursday, September 27, 2012

51% of the people living in the
United States depend on groundwater for their drinking water needs.

This fun fact and
others are included on our newest bookmark which reminds all of us that we need
to help keep groundwater clean! Each bookmark features a trivia question
and a fun fact about groundwater.

Are you a teacher
or environmental educator?Then these
bookmarks are for you!They make a
perfect tool to help students learn and understand just how important
groundwater is and how they can be involved in protecting it.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

You may have recently received a request to consider
becoming a member of The Groundwater Foundation or to renew your membership if
you have previously supported them.Like
everyone you probably receive several requests for membership this time of year
and have to decide who you can support.So
as you contemplate where your limited support dollars go, let me share a few
reasons why The Groundwater Foundation is a good, if not critical, choice.

The educational programs of The Groundwater Foundation
inspire groundwater protection actions that will ensure:

·Your two year old grandchild will have safe,
clean water to drink.

·Your dog, Fluffy, will have water to bathe and
nourish her.

·Your teenage child will be able to play in the
local lake.

·Your family will have food on the table that has
been grown with groundwater.

For these reasons and many more, I make sure that The
Groundwater Foundation is among the organizations that I support each and every
year.Make sure you do too!

Click here to join today and ensure sustainable, clean groundwater for today
and for future generations.

And now that we have you thinking
about this most precious resource, The Groundwater Foundation will soon be
launching “Water1der”, a mobile groundwater awareness trivia game app,
developed by SectorNow, which will be available free of charge from the Apple
app store.

Through a fun educational game,
players test their knowledge about groundwater, pollution prevention,
conservation, irrigation, the water cycle, aquifers, recycling, water sheds,
water use and wells. Players will “spin” a wheel on the app to determine the
topic of the question. The formats vary from traditional ones, such as multiple
choice, word scramble, matching and true/false to formats such as drag and
drop, where players can move words to areas to label parts of the aquifer;
moving, where players can select an item to be placed into the correct area;
scrolling, where players can click their finger on the right answer as it moves
across the screen; and timer, where players will touch the screen to stop a timer at the right number.